Think about It, the calcs would be heavier. Also, it would be a lot harder to use in class with all the noise. that, or headphones. How about battery life, It would drain batteries fairly fast too. Oh well

although that would be nice to hear something from your calculator once in a while, you are right in that there are more disadvantages. the sound quality wouldn't be too great with the limited RAM too.

on a side note, why is there always a weird question in these polls like "Speakers, what are those?"?

I had my TI-83 and some headphones taken up at school because I was showing one of my friends about the possibilities of TI calculators, but my teacher quickly realized that it was my calculator and had entertainer on it.

I think he wast talking about how the low amount of ram would prevent higher data rates. But yea, CPU and RAM are the important things. But I think in the future they're going to have small harddisk drives in calculators for mass storage. And then....your phone will have more graphing calculator functions.....and then....you'll have a device that is everything in one.

I don't see how the calculator could be very much heavier... The speakers on CD players are very light and can emit enough sound to be heard across a room if up loud enough. I also dont think it would be hard to handle in class.. There should be an on/off flag in the RAM to set whether sound is played or not.. not too hard to implement.

Hmm... I'm thinking they shouldn't have built-in speakers though it is fun to play sound on your calculator. Though I think once they get the capability to play noise, you can't use them on standardized tests. (They could be a potential distraction) Also, I can just imagine playing a game in class and having the calc screw up and crash causing some random noise to start coming out of the speakers. I've seen weirder crashes that do funky things with the display, I imagine if it can do that, it could also spit out random noise, which would really suck if you were in class.